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If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast t

If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go. – John Burroughs

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For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice — no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service. – John Burroughs

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Promises
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Every walk to the woods is a religious rite, every bath in the stream is a saving ordinance. Communion service is at all hours, and the bread and wine are from the heart and marrow of Mother Earth. – John Burroughs

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Earth
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Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all. – John Burroughs

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Men
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Solitude is strength to depend on the presence of the crowd is weakness. The man who needs a mob to nerve him is much more alone than he imagines. – Paul Brunton

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I got a lot of problems, but Im really good at intuiting what I need to do to be happy with whatever I create. I know when to stop myself, I know when to start, I know when to leave something alone. I guess I just kind of indulge that completely, and so I just take my time. – Fiona Apple

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The devil had as good have let Paul alone, for he no sooner comes into prison but he falls a preaching, at which the gates of Satans prison fly open, and poor sinners come forth. – William Gurnall

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Im a happy man, because I am successful in what I do, of course but what makes me most happy is I have people around me that I love and who love me back. This, for me, is the most important thing. Nobody likes to be alone. – Novak Djokovic

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Ive been around some very famous people, but no one has the effect Maradona has people tremble in his presence. – Emir Kusturica

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Never explain – your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway. – Elbert Hubbard

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I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve. – Isoroku Yamamoto

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People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things. – Richard Buckminster Fuller

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